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Seminar Speaker Series

Each year research faculty invite guest seminar speakers from alternate colleges and universities to present to interested faculty, staff and students. Topics include research analysis, active learning, teaching practices, and cultural identity, to name a few. All are welcome to attend the hour-long seminars and workshops.

Abstract: In 2014, the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the American Psychological Association (APA) and the the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) released an updated version of their book Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (SEPT). These standards provide guidance for both test developers and users based on the latest advances in psychometrics. While many of the standards proposed in SEPT are applicable to the development and use of concept inventories, they do not go far enough to cover the unique issues related to the distractor-driven nature of concept inventories. In this talk, I will provide an overview of the curent state of STEM concept inventory development, followed by a discussion of how the distractor-driven nature of concept inventories affect both their development and use, and finally I will present a proposal for the development of guidelines and standards specifically for STEM concept inventories developers and users.

Wed. November 5, 2014 11:00AM - 12:00PM, CAR-1125Exploring the alignment between workforce needs and postsecondary education: Preliminary findings from a study of the biotechnology and advanced manufacturing sectors in Wisconsin
Matthew Hora, University of Wisconsin Center for Education Research

Thu. April 18, 2013 2:00PM - 3:00PM, CAR-1125Problem-based learning in the general chemistry laboratory: Initial outcomes for students and teaching assistants
Megan Grunert, Department of Chemistry, Western Michigan University

Wed. November 28, 2012 3:00PM - 3:50PM, GLE-3139Seeing the Unseen: How and What Students Learn from Visualizations in Biology
Brian Rybarczyk, Director, Graduate Student Academic & Professional Development, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Tue. October 9, 2012 12:00PM - 12:50PM, CAR-1275Thinking Like a Physicist
Eleanor Sayre, Department of Physics, Kansas State University